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For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now the living and the recently returned struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy amidst political and religious conflicts. Officer ...

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This book makes a very useful addition to the rather scarce literature on the subject. What I always look for, and what I'm particularly gratified to find in this book, is a prominent acknowledgement ...

This landmark publication examines the need for establishing a universal framework for assessing the sustainability of a place that can be used for any place, in any part of the world. Using two case ...

The last person Sam Kelly expected to pull wounded from the lake was Sophie Lundgren. Once they shared a brief, intense affair while Sam was undercoverand then she vanished. She’s spent the last month...

The first victim is found floating in a creek - naked, beautiful, brutally garrotted. Lily Slocum was a college student with everything to live for and nothing to fear...until a madman made her his ob...

The humorous adventures of three high school students from a small town who apartment-sit in Toronto for the summer. "A frenetic string of funny scenes-supported by a handful of sturdy characters and ...

An old case spills new blood As an investigator with the CIA's Inspector General's office, Dennis loves policing the agency's network of spies for liars and thieves. But each time he plows into a case...

Dorothy clicked her heels three times and returned to Kansas. The end . . . or was it? Although she's happy to be home with Aunt Em, Dorothy has regretted her decision to leave Oz ever since. So when ...

When one of their number is kidnapped, the powerful farseeker Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to use their extraordinary mind powers to help the rebels in their struggle to overthrow the opp...

Ever since the fall of the Thallonian Empire, Si Cwan has been searching for his younger sister, the only other survivor of the royal family. His quest has been a hard one, filled with many disappoint...

After their widowed father puts their grandmother in the nursing home so that he can spend more time with his gold-digging fianc ee, college seniors Sara, Hannah, and Sam Cisco set out to free Granny....

When Alexis Blair, 29, is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue...

Divers who have explored the world's finest dive sites invariably include Palau among the best. The 343-island Micronesian archipelago is one of richest marine ecosystems in the world. Sites such as B...

An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey?s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to fle...

Grace Metallious, the author of Peyton Place, a revolutionary novel about sex and secrets in small town America, inspired Annie Barnes to leave Middle River, the tight knit community that believes its...

A masterful, compelling story from an award-winning author, this is the anniversary edition of a story every child and parent will love. Lucas is lonely. Orphaned and sent to live with his formidable ...

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final ...

Daniel Dreeme has come to the small Massachusetts town of Marlborough to pursue his medical practice; but he quickly discovers that there is more beneath the surface of this placid-seeming farming com...

Koetter Kim's award-winning architecture, master plans, and urban design have revitalized places as diverse as London's docklands and wharves, inner-city Boston, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon); Chattanoog...

This is the 34th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain. It incorporates updates following the Finance Act 2005 and contains full coverage of taxes, recent changes and the main imp...

'This is a refreshing look at applied economics, which the author argues should be so much more than applied econometrics plus experimental economics. What he calls vernacular economics is nothing les...

Philosophers have traditionally used conceptual analysis to investigate knowledge. Hilary Kornblith argues that this is misguided: it is not the concept of knowledge that we should be investigating, b...

"India: A Sense of Place" is one of two titles in a new series of travelbooks designed to be an innovative mix between travelogue and armchairtravel. Aimed at a young or young-at-heart audience, they ...

Packed with evocative images and perceptive texts that capture thedistinctive atmosphere of this beautiful country, this highly visualvolume will be lapped up by anyone with a love of travel and photo...

Packed with evocative photgraphs and perceptive texts that capture thebeauty of France's towns and cities as well as the atmosphere of la Franceprofonde, this highly visual volume will be lapped up by...

Place names are a window into the history and characteristics of a country. Their names reflect the migrations of peoples, their religious and cultural traditions, local languages, conquests and forti...

Morocco: A Sense of Place is one of two titles in a new series of travel books designed to be an innovative mix between travelogue and armchair travel. Aimed at a young or young-at-heart audience, the...

In the heart of the leafy Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl, probably local, somebody's daughter who went out one evening and didn't come back. It is not long before she is identified: fiftee...

The Geography of Tourism and Recreation presents an accessible, comprehensive introduction to tourism, leisure and recreation and to the relationships between them.Illustrated throughout, this accessi...